{"id":32249,"date":"2018-01-22T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=32249"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:40:46","slug":"newsletter-issue-947-apple-and-losing-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2018\/01\/newsletter-issue-947-apple-and-losing-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #947: Apple and Losing the Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent TV interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrongly suggested that customers were properly informed about the iOS change that resulted in throttling performance on iPhones with failing batteries. Unfortunately, the interviewer failed to correct him or make much of an effort to ask proper follow-up questions.<\/p>\n<p>Now Apple did mention a change, first for the 10.2.1 update in 2016, that it was addressing a sudden shutdown problem on some units. 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